Breakfast Scramble

The Luck of the Irish, Democrat and Chronicle:

Some attendees at Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade have come for years; for others, it was a first experience. But all said braving the cold and wind to see leprechauns, Irish

• A first at the OTB Caption Contest. Like shooting chickens in a barrel.
• Boortz is suggesting “God Bless America” as a national anthem. Come on, Neal, let’s not mess with the anti-God freaks, again, huh?
• Oh, speaking of

National Pi Day, Miami County Weekend:

It looks cool, grown-up, amazing and sophisticated. Unless you don’t like math.

But if you love it, ? seems like one of the greatest developments of its time. What could be better

•  The racist card and the sexist card. Is Geraldine Ferraro a racist? Eh, likely not. But it is of note that the charge is coming fast and furious against her from Obama’s supporters, isn’t it?I mean, look…You knew the race

Impossible Dream, Independent(UK)

Well she is a blond,  Ireland On-Line:

Patricia Arquette questioned how open-minded she was when her transgender brother Alexis first announced he was going to become a womanP

Patrica, he is still your

(Queue Beatles, Revolution Number 9)

OK, for all that we’ve been busy chatting about how Spitzer came over at the Mayflower, there was , in fact, other stuff in my head, and on the wires, besides Spitzer, today. Here’s

• Rumor control: McCain doesn’t have cancer. The Times, of course is making lots of noise about not being given McCain’s medical records, yet. The funny part of the story is, they’re still waiting for the health records of Bill Clinton,

• Well, over the weekend we got up to two feet of snow in places, mostly west of here. There’s a foot and a half in my front yard, and in my driveway.  We shovel it out, but since the yard

Rochester Rocks, 13-WHAM.

Obama’s Weak in Review, RCP

Man bites Dog, George McGovern, WSJ:

Nearly 16 years ago in these very pages, I wrote that “‘one-size-fits all’ rules for business ignore the reality of the market

• Snowing in Rochester at the moment. Nothing newsworthy about that, particularly, except that the line of snow as this is being written runs from north and east of here to the south southwest, all the way down to New Orleans.

• It strikes me as amusing indeed that the plan that Hillary Clinton is using to win the Democratic Party primary is the very same plan Al Gore used back in 2000, in his attempt to win the election.  Namely, challenge

Candidates is glass houses, the Obama campaign on the Clintons’  campaign, via MSNBC:

“As it relates to ethics and transparency,” Plouffe said, “we’re surprised that they would want to have an extended conversation about contributors and land deals and

• They’re waking up, sorta. Drum, today:

VITRIOL….Atrios:

The campaigns and candidates themselves may not get nasty, but I get the sense that supporters of the various candidates are getting angrier at the other camp. Sure a lot of

• Billy notes a comment at Wonkette, complaining about smoke stacks:
  

  “We should start bombing North Carolina.”

  … and notes:

  That’s exactly what all the false equivocations of the thing add up to.

  Exactly so. And I think I can

• Actually Billy, it likely WAS about that. … Allow an illustration: You know,there are a lot of people who figure that the right… IE: the power, to keep and bear arms is one that is directly connected to increased numbers